ABSTRACT
The focus of this book is the concept of ‘productive systems’ developed by Frank Wilkinson in a paper first published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics in 1983. Chapter 2 of the present volume updates and extends the argument made in the original paper. It lays out a distinctive interdisciplinary and institutional approach to the analysis of systems of production. The 1983 paper drew on work carried out by the Labour Studies Group of the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge in the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, the approach has been widely adopted among a network of researchers meeting annually under the auspices of the International Working Party for Labour Market Segmentation.
